47 Bible Verses about Darkness

the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;

but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness -- the darkness, how great!

for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,

and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it.

'And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;

for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.

Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way to her house he doth step, In the twilight -- in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.

And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!

For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.

Light hath risen in darkness to the upright, Gracious, and merciful, and righteous.

Also all his days in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.

And it howleth against it in that day as the howling of a sea, And it hath looked attentively to the land, And lo, darkness -- distress, And light hath been darkened by its abundance!

messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,

These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;

but the sons of the reign shall be cast forth to the outer darkness -- there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'

'Then said the king to the ministrants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him up and cast forth to the outer darkness, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth;

Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.

And He setteth darkness Round about Him -- tabernacles, Darkness of waters -- thick clouds of the skies.

Cloud and darkness are round about Him, Righteousness and judgment the basis of His throne.

And the people stand afar off, and Moses hath drawn nigh unto the thick darkness where God is.

And He inclineth heaven, and cometh down, And thick darkness is under His feet.

Then said Solomon, 'Jehovah hath said to dwell in thick darkness;

the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness is on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,

and to rule over day and over night, and to make a separation between the light and the darkness; and God seeth that it is good;

That night -- let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it not come.

Where is this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where is this -- its place?

Thou settest darkness, and it is night, In it doth every beast of the forest creep.

Cloud and darkness are round about Him, Righteousness and judgment the basis of His throne.

Then said Solomon, 'Jehovah hath said to dwell in thick darkness;

And it cometh to pass, on the third day, while it is morning, that there are voices, and lightnings, and a heavy cloud, on the mount, and the sound of a trumpet very strong; and all the people who are in the camp do tremble.

And He inclineth heaven, and cometh down, And thick darkness is under His feet. And He rideth on a cherub, and doth fly, And is seen on the wings of the wind. And He setteth darkness Round about Him -- tabernacles, Darkness of waters -- thick clouds of the skies.

Then said Solomon, 'Jehovah said -- to dwell in thick darkness,

and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it.

to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.

'And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array because of darkness.

For, lo, the darkness doth cover the earth, And thick darkness the peoples, And on thee rise doth Jehovah, And His honour on thee is seen.

Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee, To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things, Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness, read more.
Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked, Whose paths are crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.

They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths. At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief. And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, 'No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret. read more.
He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

The wise! -- his eyes are in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;

he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now; he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not; and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.

and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.

Jesus answered, 'Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see; and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'

Jesus, therefore, said to them, 'Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth; while ye have the light, believe in the light, that sons of light ye may become.' These things spake Jesus, and having gone away, he was hid from them,

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all; if we may say -- 'we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth;

And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness -- thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;

He hath sent darkness, and it is dark, And they have not provoked His word.

And from the sixth hour darkness came over all the land unto the ninth hour,

And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and lo, a great earthquake came, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood,

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate us into the reign of the Son of His love,

all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness,

And the fifth messenger did pour out his vial upon the throne of the beast, and his kingdom did become darkened, and they were gnawing their tongues from the pain,

while daily I was with you in the temple, ye did stretch forth no hands against me; but this is your hour and the power of the darkness.'

For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast them down to Tartarus, did deliver them to judgment, having been reserved,

These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;

'Then said the king to the ministrants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him up and cast forth to the outer darkness, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth;

because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness is on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters, and God saith, 'Let light be;' and light is.

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate us into the reign of the Son of His love,

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,

that which I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light, and that which you hear at the ear, proclaim on the house-tops.

Not in secret have I spoken, in a dark place of the earth, I have not said to the seed of Jacob, In vain seek ye Me, I am Jehovah, speaking righteousness, Declaring uprightness.

And it cometh to pass, on the third day, while it is morning, that there are voices, and lightnings, and a heavy cloud, on the mount, and the sound of a trumpet very strong; and all the people who are in the camp do tremble.

For ye came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

A day of darkness and thick darkness, A day of cloud and thick darkness, As darkness spread on the mountains, A people numerous and mighty, Like it there hath not been from of old, And after it there is not again -- till the years of generation and generation.

These words hath Jehovah spoken unto all your assembly, in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness -- a great voice; and He hath not added, and He writeth them on two tables of stone, and giveth them unto me.

The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.

Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade, A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining is as thick darkness.'

In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,

the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness is on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,

I looked to the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.

Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I am Jehovah, doing all these things.'

Thou settest darkness, and it is night, In it doth every beast of the forest creep.

And it cometh to pass -- the sun hath gone in, and thick darkness hath been -- and lo, a furnace of smoke, and a lamp of fire, which hath passed over between those pieces.

and having entered into the boat, they were going over the sea to Capernaum, and darkness had already come, and Jesus had not come unto them,

and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.

Jesus, therefore, said to them, 'Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;

He hath sent darkness, and it is dark, And they have not provoked His word.

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Stretch out thy hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness over the land of Egypt, and the darkness is felt.' And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness -- thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;

but the sons of the reign shall be cast forth to the outer darkness -- there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'

'Then said the king to the ministrants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him up and cast forth to the outer darkness, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth;

and the unprofitable servant cast ye forth to the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief; all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness,

all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness,

And the people stand afar off, and Moses hath drawn nigh unto the thick darkness where God is.

For ye came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

And from the sixth hour darkness came over all the land unto the ninth hour,

And the sixth hour having come, darkness came over the whole land till the ninth hour,

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Stretch out thy hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness over the land of Egypt, and the darkness is felt.' And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness -- thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;

And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already is to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer is our salvation than when we did believe; the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;

And I say, 'Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night is light to me. Also darkness hideth not from Thee, And night as day shineth, as is darkness so is light.

Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed it for thick darkness.

And the sun is about to go in, and deep sleep hath fallen upon Abram, and lo, a terror of great darkness is falling upon him;

'And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;

And from the sixth hour darkness came over all the land unto the ninth hour,

'The lamp of the body is the eye, when then thine eye may be simple, thy whole body also is lightened; and when it may be evil, thy body also is darkened; take heed, then, lest the light that is in thee be darkness;

The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Stretch out thy hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness over the land of Egypt, and the darkness is felt.'

but the sons of the reign shall be cast forth to the outer darkness -- there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'

We feel like the blind for the wall, Yea, as without eyes we feel, We have stumbled at noon as at twilight, In desolate places as the dead.

they have not seen one another, and none hath risen from his place three days; and to all the sons of Israel there hath been light in their dwellings.'

but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness -- the darkness, how great!

Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, Prisoners of affliction and of iron,

Where is this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where is this -- its place? That thou dost take it unto its boundary, And that thou dost understand The paths of its house.

Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I am Jehovah, doing all these things.'

Woe to those saying to evil 'good,' And to good 'evil,' Putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, Putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness is on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,

And God seeth the light that it is good, and God separateth between the light and the darkness,

and God calleth to the light 'Day,' and to the darkness He hath called 'Night;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day one.

They knew not, nor do they understand, In darkness they walk habitually, Moved are all the foundations of earth.

And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;

And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out. In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,

Of pestilence in thick darkness that walketh, Of destruction that destroyeth at noon,

That day -- let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it. Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days. That night -- let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it not come. read more.
Lo! that night -- let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into it. Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan. Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn.

He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

An end hath he set to darkness, And to all perfection he is searching, A stone of darkness and death-shade.

Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I am Jehovah, doing all these things.'

In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,

A day of darkness and thick darkness, A day of cloud and thick darkness, As darkness spread on the mountains, A people numerous and mighty, Like it there hath not been from of old, And after it there is not again -- till the years of generation and generation.

A day of wrath is that day, A day of adversity and distress, A day of waste and desolation, A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of cloud and thick darkness.

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Stretch out thy hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness over the land of Egypt, and the darkness is felt.' And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness -- thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days; they have not seen one another, and none hath risen from his place three days; and to all the sons of Israel there hath been light in their dwellings.'

And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness -- thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days;

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Stretch out thy hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness over the land of Egypt, and the darkness is felt.' And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness -- thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days; they have not seen one another, and none hath risen from his place three days; and to all the sons of Israel there hath been light in their dwellings.'

These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;

but the sons of the reign shall be cast forth to the outer darkness -- there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'

the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;

but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness -- the darkness, how great!

for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,

and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it.

'And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;